The winner will be a child of privilege, spoiled by family wealth and accustomed to being catered to. The winner will be white, male and mainstream in professed religious outlook. He will represent the entrenched interests of big business, avoid the moral issues of our military and economic hegemony, and ignore the poor once the votes are counted. He will lack sincere convictions, being motivated instead by eagerness for power. The winning strategy will be to measure every comment cautiously, based on the marketing research of campaign staff, and restrict all debate so as to exclude those outside the elite and any creative approaches to our problems. Voters will be bored stiff with nitpicking banalities on the two or three issues he agrees to discuss, and he will demonstrate only a marginally different stance than his opponent on these. The winner will, in short, change very little that needs changing in this world. People will still die on battlefields, oil will be pumped and dumped like there's no tomorrow, America will continue to export DDT and tobacco to countries that cannot feed their people and then demand their multi-billion dollar debt payments. I feel sadly confident in this prediction.